Talks and Teaching
Teaching
2025: Course Coordinator of Current Topics in Natural Language Processing (NLP808, Spring 2024/2025), MBZUAI
2021: Tutor of Natural Language Processing (COMP90042, Graduate level), The University of Melbourne
2020: Tutor of Natural Language Processing (COMP90042, Graduate level), The University of Melbourne
2013: Teaching assistant of Statistics and Probability (Fall 2013), Universitas Indonesia
2013: Teaching assistant of Theory of Language and Automata (Spring 2013), Universitas Indonesia
2012: Teaching assistant of Statistics and Probability (Fall 2012), Universitas Indonesia
2012: Teaching assistant of Discrete Math 1 (Spring 2012), Universitas Indonesia
2011: Teaching assistant of Database (Fall 2011), Universitas Indonesia
2010: Teaching assistant of Calculus 1 (Fall 2010), Universitas Indonesia
Invited Talks
09-2024: Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore || Enhancing Multilingual Representation in Language Models: Parallel Instruction Tuning, Vocabulary Adaptation, and Lexicon Expansion Across Diverse Languages
05-2024: The University of Melbourne || Cultural Analytics in Multilingual Language Models
04-2024: CMU (Qatar) || Navigating NLP for Underrepresented Languages: Dataset Challenges, Efficient Techniques, and Evaluations
03-2024: KAUST || Navigating NLP for Underrepresented Languages: Dataset Challenges, Efficient Techniques, and Evaluations
03-2024: Nanyang Technological University || Navigating NLP for Underrepresented Languages: Dataset Challenges, Efficient Techniques, and Evaluations
02-2024: MBZUAI || Navigating NLP for Underrepresented Languages: Dataset Challenges, Efficient Techniques, and Evaluations
01-2024: Singapore Management University || Navigating NLP for Underrepresented Languages: Dataset Challenges, Efficient Techniques, and Evaluations
11-2023: Universitas Islam Indonesia (Keynote Speaker) || Evaluating Knowledge of Large Language Models: A Case Study of Indonesian School Exams
10-2022: Binus University (Guest Lecture) || NLP for Indonesian Languages: The Current States and Future Works
09-2022: University of Toronto || Domain-Adaptive Pretraining in Indonesian Languages: The Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities
09-2022: The University of Queensland || Can Pretrained Language Models Generate Persuasive, Faithful, and Informative Ad Text for Product Descriptions?
05-2022: Keynote Panel of ACL 2022 || Supporting Linguistic Diversity
06-2022: Indonesian Association for Computational Linguistics || Scientific Article Writing
11-2021: University of Indonesia (Guest Lecture) || Indonesian NLP with Pretrained Language Models: State of the Art
08-2021: DaTalk, Jakarta Artificial Intelligence Research || Natural Language Understanding Benchmark across Languages
01-2021: Indonesian Association for Computational Linguistics || IndoLEM and IndoBERT: A Benchmark Dataset and Pre-trained Language Model for Indonesian NLP
12-2020: University of Indonesia (IR-Lab) || Document Summarization in Indonesian Text: Resources and Benchmark Model
10-2020: Data Science Indonesia || IndoLEM and IndoBERT: A Benchmark Dataset and Pre-trained Language Model for Indonesian NLP
12-2019: NLP MeetUp at Sydney, Australia || Improved Document Modelling with a Neural Discourse Parser
12-2016: Wrangle Conference, Malaysia, || Spam Text and Video Detection System at Indonesian Media Company
Contact
Fajri Koto (Assistant Professor)
NLP Department, MBZUAI, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Email: fajri.koto@mbzuai.ac.ae